[Fwd: Edubuntu Animated Characters]

[Jane Weideman]

Hello,

I think this sounds fantastic!

An Edubuntu Breezy Badger would be awesome :)

Someone has created some Ubuntu Breezy Badger artwork already see:
http://ubuntu.tux.com.au/gallery/
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26238&page=1&pp=10

Can anybody answer Nicholas' questions below?

Thanks
JaneW

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Nicholas Retallack <tiglionabbit at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Nicholas Retallack <tiglionabbit at gmail.com>
To: janew at ubuntu.com
Subject: Edubuntu Animated Characters
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:26:34 -0700

I just discovered Edubuntu when the link was placed on Ubuntu's
homepage, and found the Artwork section.  I'd love to work on an
animated Breezy Badger for this project.  I'd like to ask though, what
format would you like it done in?  I'm used to Macromedia Flash, but
its proprietary shockwave format doesn't work well on linux and has a
horrible time syncing with sounds.  It'll be a while before GPLFlash
is able to handle newer animations, and it's also not integrated in
Ubuntu at this time.  I'm going to look around for suitible programs
to animate in.  If you can recommend any to me, I'd like to find
something that can take pressure sensitive input from my tablet like
The GIMP does, and hopefully export to Animated SVG, if such a thing
exists.  Or would you prefer the frames to be drawn as an animated
gif, or a series of PNGs?  Or, if there is a SWF authoring program
around that can export to Flash 4.0 or lower, like FutureSplash
Animator, that would be good too.  What animation programs are
available for Linux?

Also, I'm just a novice with an interest in animation.  If you want a
professional, there's a guy named Dean Daniel Dodrill, who animated
for Jazz Jackrabbit.  His site disappeared recently...   but he has
done some excellent animations for Learn2, and it would be awesome to
see him work on this project.
-- 
JaneW
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